Lah-wita

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lah-wita

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 lah-wita

m. One who has a knowledge of law, a lawyer :-- Cyningan and bisceopan eorlan and heretogan geréfan and déman lárwitan and lahwitan gedafenaþ mid rihte ðæt hí Godes riht lufian it rightly befits kings and bishops, nobles and generals, sheriffs and judges, those who have learning and those who know law, to love God's justice, L. I. P. 5; Th. ii. 308, 14. lah-wita

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚪᚻ-ᚹᛁᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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